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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

by Colin Larkin (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

This updated edition offers a reference for anyone who has a query about any aspect of 20th-century popular music, including rock, MOR, rap and R&B, as well as soul, country and folk. For this edition, the research team have asessed the inclusion of artists whose work has failed to stand the test of time and created over 300 additional entries to reflect the performers who have established themselves and reappraised the careers of those who have recently died. Amongst the 384 additions to this edition are Eminem, Coldplay, Dido, Moloko and Limp Bizkit, Neil Finn, Lonestar, Vengaboys and Hearsay.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 376
 Edition: 4
 Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: 21 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 1852279230
ISBN 13: 9781852279233

Media Reviews
* '...this typically accessible and authoritative study knocks all such previously existing works into a cocked hat' The Sunday Times * 'Without question the most useful reference work on popular music' Jools Holland * 'a body of work that remains the last word in rock reference books' Q
Author Bio
Colin Larkin has the best credentials for the compiler of a music reference book - he loves the music. In 1989 with twenty years' experience in music and publishing, and unhappy that popular music has not been deemed worthy of serious reference, he set about creating an equivalent to the Grove Dictionary Of Music. The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music was first published in 1992, following three years of intensive research. The original database has trebled in size and now includes over 8 million works, the biggest of its kind in the world. Every day of every year the database in updated and expanded.